Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highlight of the Freshman program at Brooks House will be a Harvard-Radcliffe tea, to be hold soon, when the first year Harvard Co-eds will troop to Brooks House, hoping to be invited to some football game later in the season...
...confronting an entering class. The well-meaning patronizing of sophomores, the nebulous advice of juniors, and the aloof disconcern of seniors seldom bring much order out of the chaos. The college might almost as well hire a set of carollers to wander about the Yard singing a medley of "Hold Tight" and "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen...
General Johnson had declared a truce on verbal bombing for the duration of hostilities: "I am going to be ... careful ... to abstain from too many joyous wisecracks and in my small way hold up the hands of every person in public life who is trying ... to keep us out of war. ..." A few days later he forgot his resolutions when (in a column favoring censorship for radio) Dorothy Thompson wrote: "Do we want to hear General Johnson presented as a military expert and . . . make remarkable (and most inaccurate) statements about why we entered the last...
...World War II, King George VI and Prime Minister Chamberlain were quick to invoke God's blessings on their cause. Last week the Germans got around to doing the same. A prayer and a proclamation were issued by Dr. Friedrich Werner, who, in order to hold his job as head of the German Evangelical Church, must lick contemptuous Nazi boots. Excerpt from the prayer: "Bless our armed forces on land, sea and air. Bless our actions and labors on the German land and bless and protect our Führer as you have hitherto blessed and preserved him. ..." Excerpt...
...Here's a fashion for night air raid warning . . . zip-fastened, one-piece suit . . . expanding pocket will hold a torch and compact, first-aid case . . . gas mask container is waterproof" (Debenham & Freebody...